Still Missing Gift Wrapping:Tissue/Endpaper for her marriage to the

for her marriage to the man she was in love with

despite their undramatic domestic banalities

the year Alex would have been nineteen

Teresa and Thisbe who are still at home with their parents

This sentence is typical of the opening of a Dorothy Whipple novel

Still Missing Gift Wrapping:Tissue/Endpaper for her marriage to the384pp ISBN 9781903155783 Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon, b. 1945, was rst published in both America and Britain in 1981. It is a difcult book to categorise. Is it a novel? Is it a detective story? It is in fact written in the spare, direct style of a thriller. There is no way to dene this extraordinary book except perhaps by quoting the opening section: You could hardly get to age thirty four without learning something about loss. By thirty four youre